The Routledge Companion to International Management Education

24THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT EDUCATION AND ITS LIMITATIONS

Lars Engwall and Matthias Kipping

 

Introduction

There can be no doubt that higher education has been international for a very long time. As early as the Middle Ages students were moving between various universities in different countries (see, e.g., Haskins, 1929;Mietke, 1985; Schwinges, 1988). And so were professors. In this way universities obtained cosmopolitan student bodies and faculties. As different scientific disciplines developed and expanded, particularly during the latter part of the last century, the world of scholars became truly international. It could therefore be claimed that academic institutions have longer traditions of internationalization ...